In Japan as well, visiting producer sites reveals huge piles of fruit and vegetables which have been discarded because they fail to meet certain arbitrary standards. Products made in factories must all be flawless and identical. In an absurd and ludicrous twist of thinking, this industrial mindset was applied to agricultural produce, resulting in shocking waste. -- RF

## Propaganda ##A Family Business of Perpetual WarVictoria Nuland and Robert Kagan have a great mom-and-pop business going. From the State Department, she generates wars and – from op-ed pages – he demands Congress buy more weapons. There's a pay-off, too, as grateful military contractors kick in money to think tanks where other Kagans work.

Power sales down for 10 months in rowElectricity sales by 10 major power suppliers in February dropped 3 percent from a year earlier to 74.19 billion kilowatt-hours, down for the 10th consecutive month, an industry group said Friday.